“Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Tag: time
Quote of the Day
“The surprising thing isn’t that we’re irrational about how we spend our time and money. It’s how much effort we put into lying about it.” — Seth Godin, Lottery math is human math
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“Only when the clock stops does time come to life.” — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
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“Our affections divide us. We strike roots in immediate time and space, and fall in love with our locality, the customs and the language in which we were brought up. Intelligence unites us with mankind, by leading us in sympathy to other times, other places, other customs.” — John Erskine, The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent
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“Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.” — James Sallis, Black Hornet
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“Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“I was expecting to be mugged, to be decked and given a good licking by regret, and a frantic craving for youth, when, however problemed you are, you have the consolation of decades of rectification to hope for.” — Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang
